Reporters Without Borders strongly
condemns the trumped-up charges of
“illegal business activities” and
“drug possession” that the Chinese
authorities have brought against the
wife and son of Hada,
the Mongolian human rights activist
who should have been released last
December on completing a 15-year
jail sentence.

In an interview for the Southern
Mongolian Human Rights Information
Centre on 4 May,
Hada’s
sister-in-law, Naraa, revealed that
Hada’s
wife,
Xinna, and his son, Uiles,
are being held in Hohhot, the
capital of Inner Mongolia, and that
they were formally charged on 17
January. Arrested in early December,
their only crime was to support
Hada
in his fight to defend his basic
rights.

Naraa’s interview has confirmed
fears that
Hada
and his two closest relatives are
still being detained that that they
have not have not been resting in a
luxury hotel, as the China
authorities claimed last December.
Uiles was to have gone on trial at
the end of April, but the trial has
been postponed without a new date
being set, Naraa said.

Naraa said the Chinese authorities
have made it clear to
Hada
and his relatives that they will not
be freed until they sign an
undertaking to abandon their human
rights activities. Until now, they
have refused to do this, she said.
Hada
has gone on several hunger strikes
in protest against the conditions in
which they are being held. His
health has deteriorated and is now
very worrying.

Information about the fate of
Hada,
Xinna
and Uiles has been very slow in
emerging. The movements and
communications of other members of
the family have been closely
monitored and both telephones and
computers have been confiscated.

Reporters Without Borders calls for
the immediate and unconditional
release of
Hada,
Xinna
and Uiles, and for an end to the
surveillance of their other
relatives.

The press freedom organization also
calls on the Chinese authorities to
provide precise information about
the present whereabouts of Govruud
Huuchinhuu, who has been missing
since leaving hospital on 27 January
after appealing online for
Hada’s
release.

Timeline:

4/5
December 2010:
Hada’s
wife,
Xinna, and son, Uiles, were
arrested.

10
December 2010: On the day
Hada
should have been released, he was
transferred to another prison in
Inner Mongolia.

11
December 2010: Photos of the family
were posted online, under the legend
“family reunion.”

14
December 2010: Nara,
Hada’s
sister-in-law, was told by the
authorities that
Hada,
Xinna
and Uiles were “resting” at a
five-star hotel.